Stable motions of vehicle formations

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 72-77

  Williams, A ^a   Lafferriere, G ^a   Veerman, J J P ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Formation maneuvers; Formation stability; Graph Laplacian

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MANEUVERABILITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION PLANNING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

FORMATION MANEUVERS; FORMATION STABILITY; GRAPH LAPLACIAN;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 33847231343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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